I grew up in socal too, LA. I never had cable until I moved when I was 30 and the choices were even slimmer. Life got to hectic then I never real learned the local channels up here, still don’t know them and haven’t had cable for around 5 yrs. I just steam and mainly watch YouTube. But I think I remember the channels I grew up in LA.
@33 IMP can probably correct me on some.
Let’s see:
2 CBS - Dukes!
4 NBC - A-Team and Knight Rider!
5 KTLA - Basically a re-runs channel with cartoons and Family Film Festival on the weekend where they would play thing like Popeye movies or Pippi Longstocking. I dug the Pippi movies, don’t judge
7 ABC - Lots of goofy sitcoms
9 KHJ - some cartoons and Elvira Mistress of the dark
11 KTTV - then became Fox. Lots of after school cartoons
13 KCOP - then became UPN but also lots of cartoons and the new Star Trek shows
The scary world of UHF
22 and 52 were both subscription channels and we would play with the tv to kind of watch em. I’m lucky I didn’t electrocute myself since I took the back off a tv to adjust as I watched it when I was around 13
28 and some other channel had PBS, good for cooking shows
56 was a bit like a mix between and old show channel and public access
I’m probably forgetting some but it’s been over 25 years.
